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Ngora, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Local governments in Teso region are struggling to utilize the funds budgeted for during the 2019/2020 financial year as a result of interruption in the implementation of various planned activities by the COVID-19 lockdown.  The performance in local governments was affected when districts downscaled their …

Hoima, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  President Yoweri Museveni has instructed the Ministry of lands to start a process to compensate the Omukama of Bunyoro Solomon Gafabusa Iguru for his land in Hoima and Kikuube districts, which was encroached on by settlers and developers.  The first land which is located in …

Kasese, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Kasese District is planning to establish permanent evacuation centres to handle volumes of people who get displaced by disasters in the district.   The district has recurrently been hit by floods over the years. The recent catastrophe which came after River Nyamwamba and several other rivers …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Electoral Commission (EC) Chairman Justice Simon Byabakama has said that the absence of international election observers cannot stop an electoral process from taking place. Byabakama’s statement follows a revelation by the Head of Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Uganda, Ambassador Attilio Pacifici …

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The National Water and Sewerage Corporation-NWSC has faulted road contractors for failing to repair sewerage lines and damaged water pipes destroyed during their course of duty.  Agnes Atwooki, the NSWC Jinja area Principal Public Relations Officer told URN that Jinja, one of the country’s oldest …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  There is a double celebration at Soroti Regional Referral Hospital following a successful operation of a mother whose baby was implanted in the liver.  Ideally, the egg travels down the fallopian tube to the womb, when it is fertilized. But Florence Anabo, a 23-year-old mother …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Police Human Resource Director, Brig Jesse Kamunanwire has reshuffled 40 senior police commanders in changes announced this afternoon. The changes affect Regional Police Commanders, District Police Commanders and Officers in Charge of police stations. The reshuffled commanders include four Senior Superintendent of Police, …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party chairpersons in Gulu and Omoro sub-counties have expressed frustration over long unfulfilled pledges made to them by President Yoweri Museveni. Under the NRM sub–county chairperson associations in the two districts, the disgruntled party leaders say that President …

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parents in Kasese district are accusing the LC1 offices of charging them money to access learning materials that were provided by the government. The Ministry of Education distributed self-study materials to facilitate continuity of learning as schools remain closed across the country. Although the …

Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Refugees in the West Nile have demanded the establishment of institutional quarantine centers in the camps. Currently, persons who are suspected to have COVID-19 are taken to quarantine centres in Arua, far away from the camps. COVID 19 suspects in the camps in Madi …